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50 Most Rewatchable Movie Scenes - 28. 8 Mile - I Will Walk My White Ass Back Across Thee

YouTube - Ending Rap Battles If I had to give 8 Mile a fun to drag ratio, it would probably be 15/85. But the 15% is purely wonderful. Whether it's the music, impromptu rap, or general laugh, there's a lot to get out of 8 Mile. It would have been neat to see him make it at the end, but it doesn't really affect anything. The 85% is either a shouting match, anger issues, people hate their work or watching people freeze.  Marshal B-Rabbit Eminem Mathers has to get through The Falcon, Dr. Father, but first he has to beat his 2 Evil Exes. A rapper with a ice cream cone name is defeated by getting mooned by our hero. Next a man in a white tee is dealt with due to a crowd vote, the least accurate kind of vote. Then to everyone's dismay Dr. Father Falcon The chokes after MBREM whips out his new single. There's no other scene that comes close in this movie. But for fun here are links to the other battles: YouTube - About Damn Time and YouTube - X to the Z Hates Lunchtime
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50 Most Rewatchable Movie Scenes - 29. Scream - Everybody's a Suspect!

YouTube - Scream Ending 1 YouTube - Scream Ending 2 Few horror movies are as endlessly rewatchable, clever, and entertaining as Scream. From its unforgettable opening to its sharp humor, Scream remains one of the most entertaining horror movies ever made. Wes Craven came out with something so original and fresh, there's been six sequels, plus countless copies, spinoffs and parodies. The idea of two killers never crossed anyone's mind in 1996. While the heroes and heroine survive the movie and continue on to all the sequels, it's the villains that are the most interesting and best part of this movie. I haven't saw Scream 7 yet, I know we have had references to Billy being a father, but Stu has been mostly quiet up until 7. I re-watch the ending the most of anything, both characters are out of their minds, chewing up scenery, torturing Sidney. What might beat this as most rewatchable is the scene (with Stu of course) in the video store with Jamie Kennedy. YouTube - Everyb...

50 Most Rewatchable Movie Scenes - 30. The Naked Gun - It's Enrico Palazzo!

YouTube - It's Enrico Palazzo Honestly everything from the Baseball scene forward in The Naked Gun is pure gold. Most of the movie is fantastic, but this ending ramps it up. Nothing is funnier than the call back to the national anthem.  Now the true most rewatchable scene is the montage I Love LA. From the vacuuming of home plate to spotlight signals, it's a great couple minutes.  YouTube - I Love It The Baseball bloopers are a good bit of comedy for a 45 second thing. YouTube - Baseball Bloopers Second place would go to when Drebin has to prevent the seventh inning stretch from happening as that was when the assassination was going to take place. YouTube - He Was Safe Haven't watched the new one yet. I will, just haven't gotten to it. Mild expectations and nothing will be as good as the ending of this movie. I did like the two sequels, good jokes in both of them. I think the first one is the best though. 

50 Most Rewatchable Movie Scenes - 31. Pulp Fiction - The Path of the Righteous Man

YouTube - Tasty Burger! Books have been written on Pulp Fiction. Many a podcast has been spoken. Quentin Tarantino is still kind of working on his craft here in 1994. Even if it's not your favorite QT film, and for me it depends on the day which is my favorite, it would be hard to argue it's anywhere near the bottom of his filmography. We have had 30+ years of digesting this mostly glorious piece of work. What's in the suitcase? The random scene order. You can see the way he works the burger in, quite unsettling, like the previous Hans Landa scene from #38.  Pulp has more rewatchable scenes than The Departed, but that didn't make it easy to pick one. I could have gone with the Wolf scene, which feels like a short film unto itself. YouTube - Winston Wolf I could have gone with the ending, which ends up being a Samuel Jackson monologue. "I hate to shatter your ego but this ain't the first time I've had a gun pointed at me" YouTube - Ending Diner Scene “T...

50 Most Rewatchable Movie Scenes - 32. The Departed - I Got This Rat, This Gnawing, Cheese Eating Rat

YouTube - Heavy Lies The Crown Second Jack Nicholson scene on the list and not the last. His character is the rewatchable part of this movie. It wouldn't be the same without him. We know what the movie looks like without him, it's called Infernal Affairs and was made four years prior. I also came into The Departed way too late in life. It's in my top 60 list of all time but could be higher. There is a good mystery in this story. Many similarities to Goodfellas. Leo turns in a great performance, most of the cast does exquiste, but any of them could be replaced except Jack and still keep the movie as powerful as it is. Granted Leo gets the most screen time, so when we are getting the two of them onscreen together, we are paying attention. The scene where the two meet is probably my number two scene. Youtube - Billy meets Frank The elevator scene isn't really rewatchable for me for obvious reasons. The cranberry juice scene is pretty good even though no Frank. YouTube - Cr...

50 Most Rewatchable Movie Scenes - 33. Wayne's World - Thunderbolt and Lightning, very, very Frightening

YouTube - Bohemian Rhapsody I don't know if I ever heard Bohemian Rhapsody until my early 20s. Or at least it never grabbed me until then. But it did that one fateful night and it's been one of my favorites ever since. What Mike Myers does with this song is just a perfect introduction to Wayne and Garth. Mike Myers was in Bohemian Rhapsody being against the song. Myers said nobody will bang their heads to this song. Bohemian Rhapsody almost wasn't in the movie. The studio and producer Lorne Michaels wanted something more current, with Guns N' Roses being considered for the scene. Myers fought hard for Queen because he had grown up listening to the song with his brother and friends. He knew exactly how ridiculous and perfect it would be. He was so determined to keep it that he reportedly threatened to quit if they replaced it. Myers wasn't just making it up, either. He had actually spent his teenage years driving around with friends singing along to it. So that scen...

50 Most Rewatchable Movie Scenes - 34. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - Duel of the Fates

YouTube - Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan vs Darth Maul So much went wrong with the prequel trilogy. From Jar Jar to I don't like sand to From my point of view the Jedi are evil. Way too much nonsense. Midichlorians? What the hell? Darth Vader made C-3P0. So landing on the Millenium Falcon were his son, his mentor, his main driod that he never acknowledges again or the one he created that he never acknowledges again. And they are coming to rescue his daughter. The finale for The Phantom Menace is quite like The Return of the Jedi. There is a space battle, a ground battle and a lightsaber fight. They are pretty big time fillers but are ultimately just big action set pieces that add little to the overall story but put a ribbon on everything. Here you have one character we know nothing about, has one line, shows up, looks wicked, kills our main character. But it sounds and looks awesome when it happens. It's well choreographed. Good on Disney for not killing him off but bringing him back i...